[applgo443]

Why are there so many weather APIs? What's going on here?

[calsy]

Well theres lots of weather isn't there.

[hbcondo714]

Is there a public authoritative weather data source all these weather APIs get there data from? Similar to how SEC.gov[1] is for financial disclosure data?

[1] https://www.sec.gov/os/accessing-edgar-data

[djleni]

The NWS provides a lot of this, although maybe not all:

https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api

[c0nfused]

Thanks for this, just spent a week playing with their older xml api and that looks really developer friendly in comparison.

Older api: https://graphical.weather.gov/xml/

[calsy]

Around the world, weather observation and data collection is in most cases a public service provided by the government. The accessible data weather bureau's provide is also unique and country specific.

[Zafira]

I believe this burst of attention at weather APIs is from the impending shutdown of the Dark Sky API.